Puzzle.



PATENTED DEC. 8, 1903, E. B. KIRK.

PUZZLE.

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UNITED ST TES Patented December 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,105, dated December8, 1903. 7 Application filed November 20, 1902. Serial No. 132,145. (Nomodel.) 7

-pieces through or in'the alined arches or grooves, or the solution maybe indicated in any other desired manner.

The features of myinvention will fully appear hereinafter and byreference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view ofone side of a puzzle employing nine pieces having arches through whichslides are inserted when properly arranged; Fig. 2, a view of thereverse side of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a view of a modification of the puzzleshown in Figs. 1 and 2, in which more slides are used, Fig. 4 being areverse view of Fig. 3; Figs. 5 and 6, views of two sides of a puzzleemploying grooves instead of arches; Fig. 7, a side view ofone of thepieces used in puzzle illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6; and Fig. 8, a viewof a solved puzzle, showing a modification employing a multiplicity ofletters on each slide that must be'so arranged as to make the lettersread in a prescribed order.

In the drawings similar reference characters indicate correspondingparts throughout the several views.

The puzzle consists of a number of strips of wood or other-suitablematerial 1, having, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, arches 2 securedthereon, which when. arranged in the proper order, as shownin said Figs.1, 2, 3, and-4;, will receive key-pieces '3 for holding the pieces 1inposition. In Figs. 1 and 2 it will be noticed that on one side of thepuzzle the arches are so positioned when the puzzle is solved that twoshort key-pieces will register therewith and on the other side one longone, while in Figs. 3 and 4 the arches are so arranged that three longkey-pieces on'each side are necessarily employed.

groove may be perpendicular to the base, as

desired.

Fig. 8 illustrates another form in which lottors are placed in blocks 6,the solution of the blocks from left to right the letters therein willread in a predetermined order, as illustrated in the drawings; or thismay be changed to make the letters spell a sentence, quota- ?puzzleconsisting in so arranging the slides that reading ,downward in eachcolumn oftion, &c., as desired, or numerals may be inmy invention, whatkey-pieces to said strips, substantially as shown and described.

2. A puzzle consisting ofa multiplicity of strips, arches on saidstrips, and key-pieces adapted to register with said arches when saidstrips are properly arranged so that said arches are in alinement andform slides to receive said key-pieces, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony whereof I hereto affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

EDWARD B. KIRK. Witnesses:

B. H. MERRILL, JESSIE L. MORRISON.

